On 17 July, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced the start of construction of Sunrise Wind, the state’s largest offshore wind project, developed by Ørsted. The groundbreaking at the Boys and Girls Club of Bellport on Long Island officially kicked off the start of the 924 MW Sunrise Wind project
Macquarie Asset Management has unveiled its plans to take full control of the Lynn and Inner Dowsing offshore wind farms in the UK by acquiring the remaining stake currently controlled by BlackRock. Macquarie GIG Renewable Energy Fund 1 acquired a 60.75 per cent stake in Lynn and Inner Dowsing in 20
Community Offshore Wind, a joint venture between RWE and National Grid Ventures, has selected Fugro to perform a geotechnical investigation of their lease area in the New York Bight. With 3 GW of offshore wind energy potential, the developed lease area could power more than one million homes in the
Following a blade damage incident that took place on 13 July at its 800 MW offshore wind project in Massachusetts, Vineyard Wind has revealed that it is mobilising debris recovery teams on Nantucket. Vineyard Wind, a joint venture between Iberdrola’s US subsidiary Avangrid and Denmark’s Copenhagen I
Two Dutch companies operating in the food and agro industries, Plukon and De Heus, have decided to buy electricity from Ecowende, a joint venture of Shell, Eneco, and Chubu, that owns the offshore wind farm which will be built at Hollandse Kust West (HKW) Site VI in the Netherlands. Rabobank’s new g
Equinor has obtained approval of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the Bandibuli floating offshore wind project off the coast of Ulsan, South Korea. The EIA approval now allows the Bandibuli project to participate in the fixed-price contract auction for wind power projects. ”With the suc
NOTE: The article was updated on 19 July with more information about the GE Vernova turbine blade incident at the Vineyard Wind project. A turbine blade at the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind farm in the US has been damaged, leading to an investigation by the blade’s manufacturer, GE Vernova. Vineyard
The 1.5 GW Haewoori floating wind project in South Korea, owned by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and developed by Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP), has completed the environmental impact assessment (EIA) consultation with the Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Trade, Industry and E
Danish transmission system operator (TSO) Energinet has awarded EMD International and C2Wind with contracts for the assessment of wind conditions at the five new offshore wind areas for which the Danish government launched an auction in April. The offshore wind sites are North Sea I, Hesselø South,
SSE and Equinor, the co-developers of the 2 GW Dogger Bank D project (DBD), and The Crown Estate have established commercial terms of a proposed variation of the existing Dogger Bank C seabed lease, within which the two partners plan to build the fourth phase of Dogger Bank Wind Farm. The fourth pha
The first monopile for the Thor offshore wind farm in Denmark has been completed at Dajin Offshore Heavy Industry’s Penglai facility in China. In April last year, RWE selected Dajin Offshore and EEW SPC to deliver 36 monopiles each, together with secondary structures, for the Thor offshore wind farm
All 80 monopiles have been placed at the Yunlin offshore wind farm site in Taiwan. Additionally, 55 wind turbines have been installed by the installation teams, with more than half of the units already connected to the grid. The monopile installation was initially performed by Sapura Energy Berhad,
The Bałtyk II offshore wind farm, developed by a joint venture between Equinor and Polenergia, has received a building permit from the Polish Government. In addition, the Bałtyk III wind project has been given a building permit for offshore export cables in the Polish Baltic Sea. On 3 July, the Pome
The UK Planning Inspectorate has accepted into the examination phase the Development Consent Order (DCO) application for the Dogger Bank South (DBS) Offshore Wind Farms developed by RWE and Masdar. The DBS East and DBS West offshore wind farms, which could provide electricity for up to three million
